fxCop … A Cop or a Guide?

fxCop – a cool new tool from Microsoft which is supposed to analyze your code against pre-set or custom created rules and programming guidelines and warn you if your code doesn’t adhere to good programming conventions and practices.

Ironically however, fxCop code when analyzed using fxCop produces 158 warning messages – 32 of them being critical :)!

Microsoft points out however, that fxCop is more like a guide – and once the messages have been pinpointed you must make a conscious decision to either ignore them or go back and fix them. The least you can do is ensure that no new violations creap into your projects. Anyways, this tool does a great job and teaching programmers how to code … read more @ MSDN Blogs for fxCop